A Very Private War
(2023)(The first book in the Esther and the Professor Mystery series)
A novel by Tia Brown
It’s late summer of 1940, when a Nazi invasion seems to be imminent and the once sleepy little town of Poole is one of the four likeliest places for them to target. Esther Graham’s back living with her parents while her husband is away fighting, and juggling bringing up her young son, working at a research establishment and driving a WVS canteen van a couple of times a week taking food to the men who man the anti-aircraft batteries and work down on the Quay. She could cope with all that but she’s also being blackmailed over her husband’s affair.
Then everything changes when she and her boss, Professor James Lomax overhear one of their colleagues being blackmailed by the same woman. No one will take them seriously when they report it, so they decide to try to identify the traitor themselves and are aided, abetted and sometimes hindered by the Professor’s enigmatic young cousin, Captain Carmichael. The Professor isn’t fit for military service because of tuberculosis but is as determined to prove himself as Esther is, even though it means being under enemy attack from air raids and within…
Can they help to stop an invasion? And can Esther really blame her husband for his affair when she’s feeling closer and closer to the brilliant, irascible man who understands her in a way that it feels as if no one else ever has? The only thing that she can be sure of is that she is fighting a very private war.
Genre: Mystery
Then everything changes when she and her boss, Professor James Lomax overhear one of their colleagues being blackmailed by the same woman. No one will take them seriously when they report it, so they decide to try to identify the traitor themselves and are aided, abetted and sometimes hindered by the Professor’s enigmatic young cousin, Captain Carmichael. The Professor isn’t fit for military service because of tuberculosis but is as determined to prove himself as Esther is, even though it means being under enemy attack from air raids and within…
Can they help to stop an invasion? And can Esther really blame her husband for his affair when she’s feeling closer and closer to the brilliant, irascible man who understands her in a way that it feels as if no one else ever has? The only thing that she can be sure of is that she is fighting a very private war.
Genre: Mystery
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